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What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.

Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches


I was rotating some stuff in the ottoman, which acts as additional seating in The Grey. I got a surprise. Turns out there was a wee stash of oddball skeins tucked away in there. I seem to recall they were purchased at the Glasgow quilt show some fifteen months back. They were going for less than two quid for each, and each is 100 g of mainly acrylic, or other synthetic, with one or two having a minor amount of wool included. That is to say, it is not fancy yarn, but squishy and warm and ideal for making one of my random leg throws.



There are eight colours, plus two extra chocolate ones. Using a 7mm hook for loosey-goosey drape, I am working each 'layer' in different stitching, for texture and interest. And just because I can. I'll keep going until all the yarn is used. It's also a great alternative to the eye-watering, mind-searing knit of the turquoise mercerised cotton...  which is ongoing, but will not be appearing as a finished object much before Christmas! 

...oh, the basket? I got that on the recent visit to IKEA; I was in for new drapes to hang on The Grey's doorways (when it comes to a decent day, I will get a photo of those!), and couldn't walk past this pretty thing. Intended as a picnic basket, I think, but perfect for projects like this!

I do tend to place my projects into different receptacles. Makes it easy to move them around, but also working yarn from one spot keeps everything tidy and mess-free. Things can look chaotic, but there's organisation to it!

Menoturals; Floweries

Time to join in with the LLB gang and their Nature Friday blog hop. I have been bringing you some of my backlog of pretty flowers from last year's tours, and today I bring you the white and 'adjacent to' blossoms... oh, and a reminder that next week is already FFF time!




Menoooorrkk... Crummy Climate

I arrived back in Dunoon after deluges in Edinburgh and on the trip home via Lanark... and it continued... and continued...and...

I parked down at the West Bay end of town and watched the deluge blur the views out, and got on with some yarn work and listening to podcasts/audiobooks, binge-watching streamers, and generally wondering if I should be building an ark. Or at least some floaters for The Grey.

Mac1 arrived in Dunoon to house/dog sit for a pal, and for that first week, could hardly get Barney out of the house! 

I was supposed to go there to learn his routine so I could take over on a couple of the days when she has other commitments. By last Saturday, there were breaks between hosings... so Mac1 and Barney walked down to me and visited in the van...




Barney is a Himalayan Terrier and is a total mooch! He loves to snuggle on the couch, enjoys an ear tickle and an under-chin massage. He's a very good boy 87% of the time.

More on Barney and his home next week!